Prosecutors have submitted the records related to the murder case of the nephew, which Lee Jae-myung, president of the Democratic Party of Korea, defended in the past, to the court in charge of litigation for damages to the bereaved family.
The Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office recently submitted some of the past trial records to the Seoul Central District Court, where the family of the victim who was murdered by Lee's nephew filed a case for compensation against Lee.
Earlier, the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office indicted the representative's nephew, Kim Mo, for murdering her mother and daughter with a knife at a home in Gangdong-gu, Seoul in May 2006.
Representative Lee, who was a lawyer at the time, argued to the effect that “Kim was mentally and physically weak,” but the bereaved family said in December last year that CEO Lee suffered mental pain by describing the incident as “date violence” on social media during the election process. filed a claim for damages.